Chapter 23
After Shen Sanzhong showed his talents, he had a lot of communication, today this squire is invited, tomorrow the adult is invited, his communication is no longer limited to those small merchants and hawkers, gold bottles of sake, staggered, Shen San is a little fluttering, I can't help but sigh, this big husband is standing in the world, he should really have a fame.
Thinking that this kind of creation is because of Mr. Fan, and thinking of his mother-in-law, if it wasn't for his mother-in-law's kind thoughts that day, she would not have been where she is today. His mother-in-law is also a female Zhuge and thinks very closely, so she has to keep her husband. gave his mother-in-law a few more sticks of incense and informed him about Zhong Xiucai, which was right and comforting.
Jiang's wife is expensive by virtue of her husband, and the friendship of her daughters has expanded a lot, and she is also raising her eyebrows, and she laughed at her for handing it over to a poor boy ten years ago, and look at it today.
Shen San has fame and wealth, and there is no shortage of people who send concubines in the name of sending maids, Shen San is vigilant in his heart, knowing that the concubine room is the root of the chaos, and refuses to do so, and secretly says: There is a tigress inside.
Everyone suddenly stopped. That Mrs. Shen looked so weak and obedient, and when she closed the door, she actually had such a way of being a husband!
Jiang didn't know that she was pressed as a tigress, and she was also vigilant in her heart, when her husband had money, it was not that no one cared about it, but those were nothing more than tofu Shih Tzu over there, Shen Sanjie was self-conscious, and he never went to the land of fireworks. When it has fame, it is different, and these rich and noble people want to hand it over, and it is really impossible to prevent it. She didn't want to be the chaff wife of the outsider, and she was more concerned about the appearance. The family also wants to add some people so that people don't let people fall into their mouths, but the owner of the family is really less, and only bought two maidservants, do some things to serve tea and pour water, and take care of the little honey girl, she is also more than five years old, it is the age of play, she can't keep staring at her, there is a person to take care of, but it is also safe.
In the front yard, I bought a small guy who ran errands and watched the door, Fu Bo was old, Jiang He was not a subordinate, Shen San's bookstore was getting bigger and bigger, Jiang He was busy with Shen San's affairs, and the family couldn't take care of it.
The two maids I bought were both thirteen or fourteen years old, and they came out of the poor family, and the Jiang family saw their character as honest, diligent, and relieved. The Jiang family also bought a mother-in-law for the old man Shen and Mrs. Shen, this son has a subordinate in the family, but the father and mother have not, although the old man Shen and Mrs. Shen have repeatedly refused, Jiang's sentence "If it is spread out and someone pokes the backbone", the two old men thought of their son, so they accepted it. Although there are new people in the family, there is not much change, and they should do it themselves and do it themselves.
Mr. Fan didn't like his attitude of getting carried away with some achievements, and he didn't say anything, but he just looked at Shen Xinghuai who was also diligent in reading and learning with him, and felt a little comforted in his heart, but he thought viciously that he was not even as good as his own son. In the past three years, no matter how windy or rainy, when he woke up in the morning, he ran around the yard for a lap or two, and then ten big characters. His father was not ecstatic, but said: "Aya is Aye, and this talent is not hereditary." "It is rare to be more than diligent, but also intelligent and sober.
Mr. Fan also loves him a little, although he is not as good as Mi Niang. The child was precocious and thoughtful, and some adults couldn't compare to him, and Mr. Fan couldn't treat him as a child. People are not plants and trees, in the past few years, day by day, there is no grandparents and grandchildren, but also a teacher-student relationship.
That honey girl is a big one he saw when he was small, from those months old, to being able to walk, run, and shout people, these friendships are extraordinary, and they are also one of the reasons why Mr. Fan is reluctant to leave.
Shen San participated in the banquet, and was asked for poems and couplets by those squires and tyrants, he was a little clever, and he could deal with it a little, and the number of times was too much, so he also had a headache, and went to Mr. Fan, wanting to ask for some couplets and poems or some pointers.
Mr. Fan has been very unhappy with him recently, how can he be willing to teach him, and mocked: "How can that Xiucai master not even know poems and couplets, this fame is really not?" How did Shen San's fame come about, Mr. Fan should know best, first, he studied hard that year, and he had to give him some tips, and second, he was also a little smart, and he had good luck, if you want to say the real material, it is only half a jar of water. Mr. Fan snorted coldly and turned sideways to not look at him: "Your half jar of water, and don't shake it around." My poem is for you, but do you have that face to take it out? Think about you for a month, and don't you drift?"
Shen San was ridiculed by him, and he was also a little angry: "Mr. knew that my merit test was for the sake of profit, and when Mr. persuaded me to take the merit test, he also said that the husband should have a bit of fame status." ”
Mr. Fan was so angry that the book in his hand was smashed like this, and he was quite disappointed: "That fame is not something you show off to the world, it is to keep you from being despised by others." Do you think that taking the test for a show talent is the only one in the world? I pity your talent and qualifications, and I will pull you on the right path, and it is not your current drunken and happy state. How many talents are there in this world, you are just a fluke, do you really think that those people really respect you, and are willing to associate with you?
Shen San was smashed by the book, and Mr. Fan said something again, but he was sober. He was not a fool, he was a worldly man, but he was also an extremely intelligent man. Thinking about the indulgence in wine and feasting for nearly a month, I only got the flattery of those who looked down on me in the past, and I didn't get anything else. There is another saying in this world, if you don't advance against the current, you will retreat, and this is true of everything. If you don't develop your family business and only keep it, you will only get less and less, others are advancing, you are in the same place, and you are also retreating.
Mr. Fan remembered Mrs. Jiang's dying entrustment, and he had negative hopes: "The old lady asked me to take care of you when she was dying, and I wanted to follow your current aspirations, and I can be regarded as having fulfilled the old lady's entrustment." I don't care about you anymore, I feel that you are still young, and you can rush up, so that you can hold up a piece of the world for the two children below you, and give Mi Niang some good identity, and now it seems that you can count on Brother Huai......"
Mr. Fan didn't look at him and left.
Shen San picked up the book, and his heart was also heavy. The book belongs to Brother Huai, it is a historical record, he is only more than nine years old, but he looks at the historical record. When I opened it, I made dense notes, all of which were personal insights and experiences, his son has been smarter than others since he was a child, and he also knows how to forge ahead, but his nose is a little sour, and his father is not as good as a son......
After Shen San went back, he pushed forward tonight's invitation, sat quietly in his study for a while, flipped through the book for a while, and was a little upset and couldn't read it, so he went back to the room. The Jiang clan was settling accounts, and Mi Niang was sitting on the side playing with her treasure chest, which was full of things she liked, such as the bead flowers, and the wooden dragonflies that Shen Er made for her. When Shen San arrived in the house, Mi Niang shouted happily: "yes yes!" Shen San saw her cute appearance, and was in a slightly better mood, so he came over and picked her up, "What is Mi Mi playing?"
Mi Niang was still holding her treasure chest, placing it under Shen San's chest, and Shen San raised her forehead, and said sweetly: "Mi Mi's treasure chest." ”
Jiang Shi glanced up and asked, "Isn't Nai going to Fang's house today?"
"I didn't go, I refused. Shen San said, and said to Mi Niang: "Aye, can you take a look?"
Mi Niang nodded, and Shen San hugged her and sat down. "This is the pearl flower that Aya bought for Mimi, and this is the dragonfly made by the second father (second uncle) for Mimi......" The little milk voice had a sweet taste, Shen San leaned back in the chair, and recalled Mr. Fan's words in his mind......
"Aye, Aye!" Little Mi Niang didn't get a response from her father, and grabbed his clothes and shook him.
Shen San came back to his senses, touched her head, and was a little perfunctory: "Mimi is really amazing, there are so many treasures." Mi Niang was complimented and said with a smile: "Mi Mi can play with Aya." ”
"Thank you, Mimi. Shen San kissed her little forehead, looking at such a cute and lovely girl, and I don't know which stinky boy she was taken away by in the future, Shen San felt sour, the bottom was the father-in-law complex.
Thinking of the son-in-law for the sake of, Shen San thought again, this side of the territory is small, there are few good men, if you can go to Suzhou City, it must be the best, it is best to be like their family, don't be too rich, talk about poetry and etiquette, but think about it, he can't be worthy of a good family with such a status, what kind of pot with what cover, if he marries a high family, if he doesn't have a high status from others, what should he do if he can't help if he is bullied? Thinking of Mr. Fan's last words, Shen San's idea of spirit also came up, how could his father not be good, how could he earn a good husband for her!
"Mimi, Aya will work hard in the future, save a dowry for you, and mention the lintel of our house, not any stinky boy can marry you away...... Shen San said indignantly.
Xiao Mi Niang looked up at her Aya and looked down to play with her treasure chest......
On the second day, Shen San took off the gorgeous clothes he had attended the banquet and wore only an old Confucian shirt, and waited in Mr. Fan's study early in the morning. With his son's surprised eyes, Shen San cheekily sat next to him and listened to Mr. Fan's lecture.
Mr. Fan didn't pay attention to him, as if he didn't exist, Shen San licked his face and asked him questions, and he didn't say much, and he didn't say anything after he finished speaking.
Mr. Fan's cold treatment also lasted for nearly half a month, seeing that he was really motivated and wanted to learn, he eased his face, he only begged to come to the door to let him accept apprentices for most of his life, he was good, others couldn't ask for it, he was so disdainful, but also let Mr. Fan live up to Mr. Fan's hard work, and also made Mr. Fan really cold.
Fortunately, he is a person who can make sense, and it is not too late to wake up in time.
It was another winter, Shen San discussed with Jiang He about opening a paper mill, the book of Chun Fangxi is now not only sold to a few towns next door, several counties have also come to him to get goods, the printing workshop is also getting busier, and after the funds are abundant, he remembered the paper mill, this papermaking technology has long been described, just find some skilled technicians, this paper mill he set up himself, not only for the printing workshop, but also in the spring break, not only ordinary rice paper, but also some fine paper.
There was no land next to the printing shop, so he bought a piece of land on the other side and planned to build a paper mill.
The clan has a profit from the printing workshop, and it is also much richer, first of all, there are several more pieces of the clan field, all of which are distributed to the difficult families in the clan, and then the ancestral hall is repaired. Now in charge of the family is Shen San's uncle, who is a cousin with Old Man Shen, and is a stern and stubborn old man, but he is also the most sensible, and the greed for money has never been on him, but fortunately, with him, many families in the clan have been relieved in distress. But the uncle is also old, and it is time to find a new patriarch, that uncle feels that Shen Da is a good seedling, and after the printing workshop, the majesty of the three brothers of the Shen family in the clan has also risen a lot, and the clan has the benefits of the printing workshop, and he has no big opinion on this, so the uncle began to cultivate Shen Da with confidence.
After the Jiang family had a relationship with those big families in the town, look at the women of the big families who have asked people to teach the rules, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting and female popularity since they were young, and they feel that they can't let Mi Niang fall down.
The rules are just that, and there is no one to learn the rules in this small realm, the book is already learning with Mr. Fan, and the Jiang family invited an embroidery girl from the embroidery room to come back and teach Mi Niang embroidery, and teach it every two days.
Mi Niang's little hand has never held a needle and thread, but I have heard adults often say, "If you are not obedient, you will use needle and thread." I was curious about the needlework, but when I was learning, I didn't find it fun. The little hand was pierced with needle and thread, and he wept so much that he was drowsy.
Shen San felt sorry for his daughter, retreated the embroidery girl, and scolded the Jiang family for being too anxious, how could she take the needle and thread well when she was so small.
She was six years old, but she was only five years old. The Jiang family is also distressed, the desire for the daughter to become a phoenix is too earnest, and it should not be the same as others.
Mi Niang also escaped the catastrophe and never touched the needle and thread again.
Shen Xinghuai remembered that those children in modern times all wanted to learn a talent, and in ancient times, this poor family was a female red, and a rich family was a piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. I don't have to ballet Latin or anything at this time, it's still early to play the piano and chess, but this calligraphy and painting can start to learn.
Shen Xinghuai studied architecture in his last life, he knew how to sketch, and he also learned oil painting when he was a child.